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<p></p><div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;direction:ltr;font-family:aptos,aptos_msfontservice,-apple-system,roboto,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">We are writing to announce two conferences to be held in hybrid fashion at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in July 2026, as official satellites of the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians.</div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;direction:ltr;font-family:aptos,aptos_msfontservice,-apple-system,roboto,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:aptos,aptos_msfontservice,-apple-system,roboto,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://ct2026.com/__;!!IBzWLUs!Wa6tKy9MIguDvdU8Sv8ZZLTx2-xG0Z6BdiEFfJ_K9apKYP1bQiDzG2I9wwqTGKvw46hPvsdDwT99lvMTydWuoSH5iuBUQSA79TtoA87t$">https://ct2026.com/</a></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;direction:ltr;font-family:aptos,aptos_msfontservice,-apple-system,roboto,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:aptos,aptos_msfontservice,-apple-system,roboto,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The "2026 International Category Theory Conference" (CT2026) will be held from July 13 – 18, 2026. Invited one-hour lectures will be given by:</div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;direction:ltr;font-family:aptos,aptos_msfontservice,-apple-system,roboto,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:aptos,aptos_msfontservice,-apple-system,roboto,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Geoff Cruttwell, Mount Allison University</div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:aptos,aptos_msfontservice,-apple-system,roboto,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Tobias Fritz, University of Innsbruck</div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:aptos,aptos_msfontservice,-apple-system,roboto,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Michael Hoefnagel, Stellenbosch University</div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:aptos,aptos_msfontservice,-apple-system,roboto,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Ieke Moerdijk, Utrecht University</div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:aptos,aptos_msfontservice,-apple-system,roboto,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Susan Niefield, Union College</div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:aptos,aptos_msfontservice,-apple-system,roboto,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Chelsea Walton, Rice University</div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;direction:ltr;font-family:aptos,aptos_msfontservice,-apple-system,roboto,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:aptos,aptos_msfontservice,-apple-system,roboto,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Participants --- both in person and remote --- may contribute talks, to be selected by the scientific committee for plenary, parallel, and lightning talk sessions. Abstracts will be due on January 20th, 2026. More details about the submission and evaluation process will appear on the conference website soon.</div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;direction:ltr;font-family:aptos,aptos_msfontservice,-apple-system,roboto,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:aptos,aptos_msfontservice,-apple-system,roboto,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The conference "Discoveries and Vistas: Life, the universe, and higher categories" (DV60) celebrates the 60th birthday of Dominic Verity, honoring his significant contributions to category theory and homotopy theory. This conference will be held from July 20 – 22, 2026 and will feature one-hour talks from the following invited speakers:</div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;direction:ltr;font-family:aptos,aptos_msfontservice,-apple-system,roboto,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:aptos,aptos_msfontservice,-apple-system,roboto,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">John Bourke, Masaryk University</div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:aptos,aptos_msfontservice,-apple-system,roboto,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Nick Gurski, Case Western Reserve University</div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:aptos,aptos_msfontservice,-apple-system,roboto,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Mike Hopkins, Harvard University</div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:aptos,aptos_msfontservice,-apple-system,roboto,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Steve Lack, Macquarie University</div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:aptos,aptos_msfontservice,-apple-system,roboto,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Félix Loubaton, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics</div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:aptos,aptos_msfontservice,-apple-system,roboto,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Yuki Maehara, Kyoto University</div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:aptos,aptos_msfontservice,-apple-system,roboto,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Valeria de Paiva, Topos Institute</div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:aptos,aptos_msfontservice,-apple-system,roboto,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Martina Rovelli, University of Ottawa</div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:aptos,aptos_msfontservice,-apple-system,roboto,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Paula Verdugo, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics</div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:aptos,aptos_msfontservice,-apple-system,roboto,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Dominic Verity, Australian National University</div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;direction:ltr;font-family:aptos,aptos_msfontservice,-apple-system,roboto,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;fon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